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Guaviare

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Guaviare 

in its upper course called the Guayabero, a river in Colombia (South America), left-bank tributary of the Orinoco River. Length, about 1,300 km; basin area, about 140,000 sq km. It rises in the Eastern Cordillera, flows through the Mesa de Pardaos highlands, where it forms three falls, and then through the Orinoco lowlands. The river abounds in rapids; it is fed mainly by rain, and summer freshets are characteristic. It is navigable for small craft from the mouth of a left-bank tributary, the Ariari River (with interruptions at rapids).



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Yves Heller, a Red Cross spokesman, said Jara was picked up by Red Cross officials on Tuesday in a helicopter provided by Brazil in a rural area of the southeastern Colombian state of Guaviare.
Guerrillas with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) delivered the ex-governor in a rural area of the Guaviare department, according to an ICRC statement.
Helicopters were to move the hostages from Guaviare, a Farc stronghold in the south, to another location where Alfonso Cano, the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), was waiting.
 
 
 
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